Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Norma Desmond

Glenn Close has a fantastic voice. Her over-the-top role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's over-the-top musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard is a goldmine for an animator. I heard the broadway recording of the musical 8-9 years ago and my friend and I knew from the start that it would be great to experiment with animating even a small sliver of her performance as Norma Desmond. I found a 30 second clip and blocked out the action. It's been good for me to explore animating an extended scene of a female character. Here's just a taste of the scene I'm chipping away at:

Fantastic animation!I just came about your blog after scanning the 11 second club for the first time. May I ask what you use to test your animations on? Do you have a lunchbox or a sort of digital camera-setup?

heard the good word via a fellow 11 sec alumni! Working at the sky of blue I hear? How is that going anyway? Thats fantastic, well deserved, your work is really inspiring and always a delight to watch.

BJ,It's nice to see the stuff you started and showed us at Columbia College as it is progressing and getting finished. I still like watching "Time for All Seasonings" for the nth time. I remember subway girl when she was just a girl without a background and the panda as a pencil test. Really liked the final.The more I go on, the more I realize I learned a great deal from you!Thanks,-Hope Good